Executions
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An execution is the act by which a state puts a condemned person to death. Hands Off Cain records the cases documented by public sources: press agencies, local newspapers, human rights organisations, official statements. The figure that results is a confirmed minimum, not an estimate of the real total: several states publish no data on executions, and in some countries they are not announced even to the families.
This page collects the news on the executions recorded by the association. The totals by country and by year are in the database.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed … executed in Tabriz in the last days
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYTEHRAN AND KABUL TRADE ACCUSATIONS OF RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
The Taliban's foreign minister has criticised its leading economic ally and political supporter, Tehran, for the high number of executions in Iran, Farsi media reported.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: 3 HANGED FOR IS-CLAIMED BLAST THAT KILLED HUNDREDS
Iraq has hanged three people convicted for a 2016 bombing that killed more than 320 people in a Baghdad shopping district.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Qom on September 5
18 women executed in 2023
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Abbas Najari executed in Shiraz on September 5
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A woman, Mahboubeh Roshandel, executed in Mashhad on September 4
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Houshang Moghtaderi executed in Ahvaz on September 3
AUGUST 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Sargazi and Esmaeil Hajizadeh executed in Hamedan on August 29
531 executions since the beginning of 2023
AUGUST 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Wafa Kharamani executed in Saqqez on August 27
528 executions in Iran in 2023
AUGUST 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sobhan Eftekharedin executed in Aligudarz on August 27
AUGUST 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Yazdanpanah executed in Zarand on August 26
AUGUST 25, 2023AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. The state wants to be the first to execute prisoner by making them breathe pure nitrogen
AUGUST 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Qezel Hesar on August 23
Kiumars Rezaei, Rahman Ebrahimi and Behrouz Rahmani
AUGUST 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentied man executed in Mahvelat on August 23
AUGUST 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Karami executed in Karaj on August 23
AUGUST 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shouresh Morovati executed in Sanandaj on August 22
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Zahedan on August 21
Abdolsamad Khadem, Yaghoub Ejbari, Mohammad Anwar Barahouyi, Esmail Ghanbarzehi and 'Mir'
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolreza Ghalavand executed in Ahvaz on August 21
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamil Abodllahzadeh and Mehran Amiri executed in Qazvin on August 21
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Narouyi executed in Kahnuj on August 21
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 21
Saeed Rigi, Abdolghafour Toumaj and Amir Rahimi
AUGUST 21, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yazdan Varehzardi executed in Ahvaz on august 21
AUGUST 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Afkhami executed in Sari on August 20
AUGUST 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdul Samad Shahozehi and Mahmoud Rigi executed in Zahedan on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dezful on August 19
- AUGUST 16, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ibrahim Moulodpour executed in Dezful on August 16
- AUGUST 16, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Javadi executed in Maragheh on August 16
- AUGUST 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed on August 13
Abdul Ghani Arbabi, Hamed Jamshidi + Unk
AUGUST 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeid Biranvand executed in Khorramabad on August 13
500 executions in Iran since the beginning of 2023
AUGUST 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Khorramabad on August 13